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Storytelling Skills for Language Teachers

INTRODUCCIÓN

It is often teachers of young learners who are the quickest to embrace teacher-led storytelling as a way of engaging students and structuring sessions. But we are considering a classroom art which is far too valuable and versatile to be associated exclusively with one group alone.This 3 day face-to-face course is ideal for anyone looking to get the most out of storytelling in ELT. During the course, you will develop your awareness and understanding of the potential and versatility of this technique no matter the age of your students. You will gain valuable insight into the huge number of learning and teaching opportunities in front of our eyes when using storytelling, together with the acquisition of invaluable skills, competences and ideas for lesson planning.

OBJETIVOS

• Choosing stories for your classroom.• How to prepare storytelling sessions.• Development of teacher talk techniques.• How to involve students and get them speaking and interacting.• How to incorporate image and video into storytelling.

CONTENIDOS

• Which type of story is suitable for your classroom?• Planning storytelling.• Us and them … how to get students involved.• ICT and storytelling.• Tasks are varied, dynamic and practical. You will be able to take ideas and techniques straight to the classroom.

PONENTE

Jamie Keddie is a Barcelona-based teacher, teacher trainer, writer and presenter. He is the founder of Lessonstream (www.lessonstream.org) the site that was formerly known as TEFLclips, winner of a British Council ELTons award. His publications include Images in the Resource Books for Teachers series published by Oxford University Press or Bringing Online Video into the Classroom (to be released in spring 2014) He is also the author of Videotelling, a self-published ebook to be released in 2014.Jamie’s video training courses have taken him to Spain, Turkey, Poland, Austria, Belgium and Germany as well as his home country – the United Kingdom - where he is an associate trainer for Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE).You can get more information about Jamie´s work at www.jamiekeddie.com